I have created a UITabBarItems and now I want to add a
custom title on it. I like the Interface Builder whenever I select the
particular instance. If I modify the the title it gets preset back to a
'custom' identifier. Ideally I'd like the book icon from the 'Bookmarks'
identifier with my own custom title.

Is this level of customization currently supported by the
SDK? Am I going to have to ultimately screen scrape the image and apply it as a
custom image?

Thanks for any insight or documentation which points me in
the right direction.

Unfortunately, the only types of UITabBarItems are those supplied and described entirely by the OS (ie, it assigns them icons and titles), and those described entirely by the app, as you've discovered. By far the simplest solution is to pull the icon out of somewhere else and use it with